Book

The Girls

Emma Cline · 2016

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Themehenrycornerfeedbackfictionconniecameranaked backsuzanne

Context2016lived_experience

What this book knows

Female adolescence is a sustained negotiation with being seen, desired, and erased by others who do not see you at all.

Sex: Primary
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

desirebelongingself-and-identity

desire

I noticed their hair first, long and uncombed… I knew they were different from everyone else in the park.
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I visited the magazine with the regularity of a penitent… locking the bathroom door with breathless, ill pleasure.
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Suzanne wielded her Swinger camera like a weapon. Goading men to drop their jeans… The boys pretended to believe her.
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belonging

That was part of being a girl—you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy.
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It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as the kind of girls who belonged to each other.
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self-and-identity

That was the difference between me and the black-haired girl—her face answered all its own questions. I didn't want to…
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Illuminates

15 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience

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